Paul Newman Quotes
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You only grow when you are alone.
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I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.
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You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.
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I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor.
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The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
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I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You don't want any woman to look under the carpet because there's lots of flaws underneath. Joanne believes my character in a film we did together, "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" comes closest to who I really am. I personally don't think there's one character who comes close... but I learned a long time ago not to disagree on things that I don't have a solid opinion about.
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If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.
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I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.
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What we got here is a failure to communicate.
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The only question I ever ask any woman is, 'what time is your husband coming home?'
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Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
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I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.
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From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.
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It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.
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If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.
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Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
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Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
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To be an actor you have to be a child.
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No sense in being a grifter if it's the same as being a citizen.
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I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.
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I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.
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Winning isn't everything.... it's just all there is.